The ante-bellum Negro prayed, <br />For God to intercede, <br />And God in answer to him said, <br />'Your children shall be freed.' <br /> <br />The hand was seen upon the wall, <br />The fates at once decreed <br />That Negro bondsmen one and all, <br />Should soon be free, indeed. <br /> <br />'If Abraham Lincoln's president' <br />The South said, 'we'll secede;' <br />They apprehended he'd consent, <br />For Negroes to be freed. <br /> <br />To battle North against the South, <br />O'er states rights was agreed, <br />But echo from the cannon's mouth, <br />Said, 'Negroes must be freed.' <br /> <br />Confed'rates did with marked success, <br />McClellan's steps impede, <br />Till Abr'm Lincoln did confess, <br />That Negroes must be freed. <br /> <br />The Union boys with heaven's strength, <br />From that time did succeed; <br />And fought with valor till at length, <br />The Negro slaves were freed. <br /> <br />The Jim Crow car for Negroes made, <br />To crush their pride, indeed, <br />Has on the harps of thinkers played, <br />Those people must be freed. <br /> <br />The right of suffrage from the men, <br />Is taken out of greed; <br />A better day is coming when <br />They shall from this be freed. <br /> <br />Black men before the lyncher's rope, <br />In vain for mercy plead, <br />But justice cries, 'There is a hope, <br />From such you shall be freed.' <br /> <br />From ignorance and poverty, <br />From superstition's creed, <br />From those who crush his liberty, <br />The Negro must be freed. <br /> <br />The hand has written on the wall, <br />The clouds must all recede, <br />For God Whose word can never fall, <br />Says,'Negroes must be freed.'<br /><br />Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/must-be-freed/
